Chuck Schumer Meeting With Trump As Shutdown Looms

If they fail to do so, the federal government will run out of money and nonessential employees will face furlough-a temporary, unpaid leave from their government jobs.

If the federal government does shut down this weekend, it would be the first spending impasse since 2013, when Republicans blocked action on funding bills for 16 days, protesting the implementation of the Obama health law.

If Republicans were prepared and knew what there were doing – and they don’t now – it would be a very interesting experiment for the American people to watch: how numerous almost 2 million federal government employees who cost the taxpayers over $136 billion annually are actually essential?

But when both parties support a program yet can’t get it done, there’s usually blame to spread around. Joe Donnelly and Joe Manchin saying they will vote for the GOP-led CR. The bill requires 60 votes to pass, with Republicans only guaranteeing 51 yays. Mike Rounds of South Dakota said on CNN.

“What I have noticed with CHIP is that it puts parents’ and grandparents’ minds’ at ease and it lets us focus on the most important work – which is to let every child be healthy”, Davis said. The 2011 Budget Control Act forced across-the-board budget cuts and has constrained military spending ever since.

“But I don’t know how I can go home if we’re in a shutdown”, he said.

The finger-pointing over who should be blamed intensified Friday, with minority Democratic lawmakers charging that the Republicans and White House had failed to deliver on fixing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects about 700,000 people who came to the USA illegally as children. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., the minority whip, publicly confirmed what the president said during a closed-door negotiation, declaring that Trump “said things that were hate-filled, vile and racist”, and adding, “I can not believe that in the history of the White House, in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday”. “It doesn’t resolve the fate of the Dreamers”. And they point to his tweet earlier this morning that seemed to contradict the spending bill drafted by GOP leaders specifically to ensure that it would pass.

“CHIP should be part of a long term solution, not a 30 Day, or short term, extension!”

Trump likewise had some words for Americans concerned about the state of the USA government. In that time they hope to negotiate a DACA deal to prevent a full government shutdown.

Negotiations with the White House on a bipartisan compromise on DACA blew up last week after Trump reportedly referred to African nations and Haiti as “shithole countries”.

White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah issued a statement pushing to keep the government funded and didn’t mention CHIP.

When Trump criticized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act last week, which his administration was seeking to renew, only to reverse himself two hours later, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly denied the president had made his job more hard.

But Trump hit back on Twitter Thursday: “The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it”, he wrote.

Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, told reporters Wednesday he didn’t believe GOP leaders had the votes to pass it because of the internal divisions. Ryan said he spoke with the president at about 10 a.m. Thursday, and “he fully supports passing” the short-term funding bill. “And he’s not yet indicated what measure he’s willing to sign”, Mr. McConnell said.

Senate Democrats are proud to have the votes to shut the government down. Schumer called McConnell’s remarks “outrageous”.

“It appears the Democrats have held up all legislative activity in the Senate including help for our citrus growers for the sake of DACA”, he said Thursday.

If the government were to shut down, the military is considered essential and would still report for duty.

The White House has claimed that while the Obama administration “weaponized” the 2013 shutdown, they will take great strides to protect the American people from inconvenience, including keeping the National Parks open. “We discussed all of the major outstanding issues, we made some progress, but we still have a good number of disagreements”.

Privately, McConnell expressed concern about the growing possibility of a shutdown.

Eleven House Republicans voted against the spending bill, including Florida Representatives Carlos Curbleo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who vowed to vote against any legislation that did not include action for DACA recipients.